With this pull request we enable site owners acting individually to customise the welcome page for their sites using normal html and css without privileged access to the server or cooperation with any other user. github

I personally struggled to make an attractive and responsive replacement for wecome for the start.fed.wiki page and was not at all happy with the result.

I noticed the Wikimedia Research group created something like this recently and though I might copy it.

It turns out many services they inherit from wiki aren't available in the static site generator they used. These include language translation as well as simply being able to correct punctuation.

In email to the research-list Dario explains, "Due to production requirements, all code needs to
be on Gerrit, but asking people who want to suggest typo fixed to go
through the developer access instructions is a usability nightmare.
Jonathan's suggestion is a temporary solution, I'd like to work with Baha
to figure out if there's a possible workflow that allows us to receive PRs
and issues on GitHub, have them synced with Gerrit, before they are
reviewed and, if +2'ed, merged there. This may take a while so we
appreciate your patience."